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Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE

Paula Thornhill is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program within RAND Project AIR FORCE. She retired from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general in 2009. Her last assignment was as the commandant of the Air Force Institute of…

James S. Chow is director of the Force Modernization and Employment Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE, and a senior engineer at the RAND Corporation. He also currently serves as the Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He has studied a variety of issues in the national defense and…

Raymond E. Conley is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation and director of the Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program within RAND Project AIR FORCE. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Conley has led and worked on an array of policy studies…

Director, Resource Management Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE

Obaid Younossi is the director of Resource Management Program, part of RAND Project AIR FORCE, and a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation. Since joining RAND in 1998, Younossi has led and worked on a wide range of studies for the U.S. Air Force, the Office of the Secretary of…

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